Not All Energy Stocks Are Equal. Read & Decide.
Personally, I thought it was a mixed trading day on Wed, 27 Sep 2023.
When market called it a day:
DJIA: -0.20% (-68.51 to 33,550.27).
S&P 500: +0.02% (+098 to 4,274.51).
Nasdaq: +0.22% (+29.24 to 13,092.85).
This type of “depressed” trading behaviour will persist, until the US government declares that it is in a shutdown (see below).
Everything just have to hit the bottom before it could start to bubble up & recover right? All of a sudden, things will be “looking up”.
How could it not, when its already at the bottom of the pit? LOL!
Looking at the 3 composite indexes futures, things are not looking great!
The work-in-progress Senate plan that will help to cushion a full blown shutdown will serve to prolong the anticipated agony.
This in turn would further drive US market down, in my view.
Finally, the standoff has begun to attract “unwanted” attention of ratings agencies.
Both Moody's and Fitch warning shutdown could damage the federal government's credit-worthiness; pushing [a] borrowing costs (by the govt) and [b] national debt even higher.
Government shutdown seems to have evolved becoming a norm?
There have been 14 government shutdown since 1981 (see above).
Chart shows the timeline of the 14 US government shutdowns from 1981 to 2020, and the current potential shutdown looming by Oct. 2023 if Congress fails to enact spending measure.
Even though US market performance hasn’t exactly been stellar for the past few days and even weeks, the Energy sector has been enjoying its cyclical “rush”.
Perhaps the concerted effort by [a] OPEC+, [b] Saudi Arabia and [c] Russia to further reduce oil output have finally driven the message home and that is oil supply will not be abundantly available until end December 2023.
With US’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) at historical low (see above), the BIden administration will no longer be able to draw down its stockpile unreservedly io keep oil price “artificially low” for too long.
This explains why oil price has managed to sustainably stayed above the $90 per barrel resistance recently.
The day US stops drawing from SPR, will be the day oil price will shoot through the roof.
This is why energy stocks like $Exxon Mobil(XOM)$ , $Chevron(CVX)$ , $Occidental(OXY)$ will become the darlings very soon.
Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Renewable Energy stock $NextEra(NEE)$.
After all the hype about green energy etc.. when it comes to the crunch, they are still no match for fossil fuel.
Is there a possibility that the US government is not driving hard enough for renewable energy adoption?
Or there is “indecent” money being thrown around by fossil lobbyists, gunning for governmental “support”.
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023, NextEra Energy Partners stock collapsed.
It fell by -17.1% after the company of wind, solar, and battery storage renewable energy projects revised its growth expectations for the next few years.
Previously, NextEra Energy had targeted a payout growth rate of +12% annually.
With the latest revision, growth expectations have been “reduced” to a range of from 5% to 8%, with a target of about 6%.
Root cause for the revision were [a] tighter monetary policy and [b] higher interest rates, affected financing needed to grow distributions at the previously forecasted 12%.
The nail to the coffin must have been the qualifying statement that the revision will last through "at least 2026."
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$新纪元能源(NEE)$ Normal to experience headwinds in this environment. May increase my shares later. This is a long hold for me.
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This is all a due to the NEP press release. (after reading it many times it makes no sense other than a small drop not 40% in 2 days). Taking down NEE from 137 b to 117 b market cap. All panic selling. Had these same horrible feeling at the covid drop to 47 and look what happened there. This to shall pass just going to take some time (Analyst are all over this doesn't help) I share your disgust.
WTI futures and Brent futures appear to be trading sideways with an upward bias over the last 2-1/2 hours. What is going on in oil futures markets?
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Great ariticle, would you like to share it?
Great ariticle, would you like to share it?
Great ariticle, would you like to share it?
NEE action today. Great learning tool. Biggest loser in S&P just because they decreased the dividend growth rate from 12% to 6% per year. I did not appreciate the importance of div growth. Almost 10% cut today.
$新纪元能源(NEE)$ No reason whatsoever for this stock to go down- They sell off a asset where the monies go to the profits and they forecast larger profits in 2025-2026. This will be in the 70s after the hurricane season
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